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Favorite films

  • The King of Comedy
  • Paris, Texas
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Chinatown

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  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★

  • Bring Her Back

    ★★★★

  • The Wages of Fear

    ★★★★

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★★

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

The final mission, whether or not I choose to accept it.. Man, what a sendoff! First and foremost, thank you Tom Cruise for this iconic era that has easily become one of the best franchises to exist in the medium. This was a more than fitting end for the saga and I am unapologetically glad I got to experience it in IMAX. 

Basically everything we’ve come to appreciate/expect from these movies is cranked up to 11 in this one. The…

Bring Her Back

2025

★★★★ Liked Watched

Two words, SALLY HAWKINS! What a powerhouse lead performance. Both she & Jonah Wren Phillips absolutely delivered in their roles. Got to see an early screening for this one and let me just say that this movie is pure genre bliss for us horror fans. The Philippou brothers have killed it in their sophomore outing, following up Talk to Me was never going to be easy.

There is something so strangely satisfying about a horror film that just goes for it,…

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Thunderbolts*

2025

★★★ Liked 1

Not the comeback I was hoping for as an MCU fan, but decent enough. If you get past the patented forced comedy, predictable story beats, and hollow connections to past projects, theres actually something kind of compelling going on here. In a weird way, its one of the darkest & most different MCU films that have come out in recent memory, if not ever.

When the movie isnt going for generic laughs or thrills it starts to explore themes of isolation…

The Wages of Fear

1953

★★★★ Watched

An undeniable classic thats easily one of the most influential thrillers ever made. Its bones & DNA can be found in everything from obvious projects like Sorcerer to less obvious ones like Mad Max: Fury Road. Clouzot manages to create nerve chilling tension not with music, but with complete silence, nervous sweat, and the ever so present threat of imminent death via a nitroglycerin explosion. It’s a masterclass in suspense, especially once the trucks finally hit the road.

But thats the…